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98 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
angles very slightly obtuse; sides gently rounded in front, 
parallel for the posterior two-thirds; posterior angles right 
angles; with two feeble impressions on each swle at the base. 
Scutellum transverse, rounded behind, finely and closely punc- 
tured in the centre, the margins impunctate and shining. 
Elytra a little longer than the prothorax, disc rather flat, anterior 
angles very slightly obtuse, sides subparallel; apex of each 
elytron obliquely truncate. Abdomen with two segments exposed, 
finely and very closely punctured. Under side finely punctate. 
Antenne and legs pitchy brown. Length 3} mm.; width 2mm. 
This species closely resembles Carpophilus fusus, Murray 
(Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 370). It may be distinguished by its 
shorter and broader prothorax, more shining surface, and more 
regularly and less closely punctured elytra. 
Lastopactyuus, Perty. 
‘Delectus Animalium,’ 1830, p. 34. 
Lordites, Krichson. Germ. Zeitschr. Ent. 1843, iv. p. 316. 
Herr Reitter has pointed out that these genera are syno- 
nymous (Verh. Ver. Brinn. xii. p. 86). 
Lasiodactylus notabilis, n. sp. 
Cuneiform, much broader in front than behind, brown, some- 
what shining, the margins broad and yellowish testaceous. Head 
transverse, embedded within a semicircular emargination of the 
prothorax, rather finely and moderately closely punctured and 
deeply impressed in front, more closely punctured at the base. 
Clypeus rather finely and closely punctured, with a slight ele- 
vation at the base. Antenne testaceous, the club darker. 
Prothorax at the base more than twice as broad as long, narrower 
in front than behind, moderately finely and rather closely punc- 
tured, deeply emarginate in front; anterior angles slightly obtuse; 
sides rounded ; posterior angles acute, slightly produced and 
reflexed. Scutellum transverse, rounded behind, rather finely 
punctured. Elytra about twice as long as the head and prothorax 
together, as broad at the base as the prothorax, narrowed behind, 
rather finely striate-punctate, except the apex which is smooth, 
the interstices raised, moderately broad, and impunctate; anterior 
angles obtuse; sides oblique, rounded behind, margins finely 
punctured and slightly reflexed, abbreviated posteriorly; with a 
deep impression on each side at the base: each elytron with an 
